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Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)

Vincent van Gogh · 1887

Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler) — Vincent van Gogh
Face & Portrait ★★☆ Intermediate

What you practise here

Van Gogh: portrait in colour, expressive simplification

Start from the skull as a ball, place the brow line and the centre line, then check the thirds of the face before any detail. Compare angles, not features.

Draw this — free, no account Museum source

Public-domain artwork from a museum collection, reproduced for study. 100% real art — 0% AI.

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